Comparing South African and Latin American experience: Migration and housing mobility in Soweto

Urban Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2375-2400

  Gilbert, Alan ^a   Crankshaw, Owen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MARKET; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; MOBILITY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033379276     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098992476     Document Type: Article

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